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27Th May, 1926. Present HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. 25 27TH MAY, 1926. PRESENT:― emotion of the grievous loss sustained by this Colony through his death. When, as a young HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR (SIR CECIL cadet, I first landed in Hongkong, I stepped CLEMENTI, K.C.M.G.). ashore upon ground which under a most successful scheme, devised by Sir Paul, had HIS EXCELLENCY THE GENERAL OFFICER been newly reclaimed from the sea. Sir Paul was COMMANDING THE TROOPS, ACTING (LIEUT.- then already a member of both the Executive COLONEL MONTAGUE BATES). and Legislative Councils. Indeed it is now forty THE COLONIAL SECRETARY (HON. MR. W. T. years since he first sat in this Chamber. My SOUTHORN). earliest recollections as Clerk of the Executive THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL (HON. MR. J. H. and Legislative Councils in Hongkong are KEMP, K.C., C.B.E.). associated with memories of Sir Paul, whose THE COLONIAL TREASURER (HON. MR. C. sage advice, whose wonderful foresight and McI. MESSER, O.B.E.). breadth of vision. whose remarkable financial HON. MR. E. R. HALLIFAX, C.M.G., C.B.E. skill, and whose unbounded enthusiasm for all (Secretary for Chinese Affairs). that tended to develop this Colony never failed to have a marked influence upon the decisions HON. MR. H. T. CREASY (Director of Public of both Councils and at all times informed the Works). policy of the Hongkong Government. HON. MR. E. D. C. WOLFE (Captain Superintendent of Police). I stood yesterday at Sir Paul's bedside and, as HON. SIR HENRY POLLOCK, K.C. all who knew him would have expected, his last HON. SIR SHOU-SON CHOW. words to me concerned what he might still, even after death, do for the benefit of Hongkong. He HON. MR. A. O. LANG. has bequeathed to this Colony his house, his HON. MR. H. W. BIRD. marvellous collection of porcelain and his HON. MR. R. H. KOTEWALL, LL.D. historical series of pictures of Hongkong from HON. MR. D. G. M. BERNARD. the days of its infancy. But above all he has bequeathed to Hongkong development schemes MR. S. B. B. McELDERRY (Clerk of of great magnitude, many already completed Councils). and some on their way to completion, schemes which have changed the face of the land, which Minutes have vastly increased the prosperity of the Colony and which will inure to the comfort and The Minutes of the last meeting of the contentment of present and future generations of Council were confirmed. its inhabitants. While Hongkong and Kowloon endure, so long will his work remain as his Colonial Secretary imperishable memorial. HON. MR. W. T. SOUTHORN took the oath upon Yesterday also brought us the sad news that taking his seat as Colonial Secretary. Mr. Holyoak had died in England. Like Sir Paul Chater, Mr. Holyoak was a member of both the Hon. Sir Paul Chater and Executive and Legislative Councils: and the Mr. P. H. Holyoak sudden loss of two of our most valued Councillors in H.E. THE GOVERNOR said―Last night Sir Paul Chater passed away at his home in this island. It is difficult for me to speak without 26 HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. one and the same week is a severe blow to Chater, as he then was, left nothing to chance, Hongkong. Both were in heavy harness up to the but himself went out day after day in a small day of their death: for Mr. Holyoak, although Chinese sampan with a sounding lead to satisfy absent on leave, had been charged with business himself by personal observation that there was of high importance which he hoped to transact sufficient depth of water off Kowloon Point for on behalf of this Colony while in England. Mr. the large wharf and godown business which he Holyoak was also up to the time of his departure, had in view and which has grown into the big Chairman of the Hongkong General Chamber of and important concern of the present day. I hope Commerce and throughout the anxious period of that I may be pardoned for quoting this incident the boycott, when his own business made great because it illustrates the point which I wish to demands upon him, he filled with distinction make that Sir Paul's success was not due to mere that exacting public position in addition to luck but was largely attributable to that species discharging very faithfully his duties in the of genius which has been defined as an infinite Executive and Legislative Councils. The Colony capacity for taking pains. and especially the mercantile community owe Mr. Holyoak a deep debt of gratitude for his It is impossible with in reasonable limits of services during a difficult period of strain and time to attempt even to enumerate the vast stress; and we all mourn his death both as a works in this Colony with which Sir Paul's name personal and a public loss and also as being in a will be inseparably connected. He has to his measure a sacrifice due to unremitting labour for credit the main share in carrying through two the good of Hongkong. large Reclamation Schemes, the Praya Reclamation Scheme, which was carried out I move that there be recorded in our minutes between 1889 and 1897, which gave us an an expression of the grief with which we have immense area of flat building land from West learned of the deaths of Sir Paul Chater and Mr. Point to the West end of the Naval Yard, and the Holyoak, as well as of our profound sense of the Praya East Reclamation scheme from the east loss which the Colony has thereby sustained and end of the Naval Yard to East Point, which will that the Clerk of the Council be instructed to be completed in the course of the next few years convey to the bereaved families our deepest and will give this Colony a most valuable sympathy. addition to its available building land. HON. SIR HENRY POLLOCK said ― On Also Sir Paul has been the chief moving spirit behalf of the Unofficial members of this Council in such important building development I beg to second Your Excellency's words. It is companies as the Hongkong Land Investment difficult to express adequately what I feel on the Company, and three other companies of a present occasion. Within the brief space of 24 similar character which had a successful career hours, I have heard of the news of the passing in their day―The Kowloon Land and Building away of both my Unofficial colleagues on the Company, the West Point Building Company Executive Council; men with whom I have had and the Land Reclamation Company. In addition the honour of being associated for many years Sir Paul has rendered yeoman service to various past in matters affecting the legislation and the essential public companies, on the board of public life of this Colony. which he has sat and has given the shareholders the benefit of his ripe experience. He is also In looking back over Sir Paul Chater's career, known as the pioneer of much building I have had no difficulty in finding the word development in Kowloon. which would most aptly describe his work. Sir Paul was a master-builder. His mind was Nor is Sir Paul less conspicuous when we eminently constructive in all things, and it was a come to consider not merely the work which he master mind―a mind which mastered the whole has put in on innumerable of every project upon which he was engaged down to the very smallest detail. This mastery of detail is aptly illustrated by what Sir Paul did in the early eighties at the time when the scheme for the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company was first being mooted. Mr. HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. 27 Public Committees in this Colony but also his and of the Hon. Senior Unofficial Member of generous gifts to our University and his the Council. munificent donations to the Churches of this Colony and other public institutions. In addition The resolutions were passed by all members Sir Paul has also performed anonymously many of the Council standing. acts of private benevolence. In private life Sir Paul was the embodiment of patience and Finance courtesy and his almost encyclopedic memory made a talk with him on the past history of this THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command Colony extra-ordinarily interesting. By his death of H.E. The Governor, laid upon the table the the Colony has lost a many-sided man of rare Report of the Finance Committee No. 2, and ability, who had a lasting and abiding faith in moved that it be adopted. Hongkong and its future progress. It is hard to lose such a man especially at the present time. THE COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, and the motion was agreed to. Turning now to our other colleague, Mr. Holyoak, I find it difficult indeed to express all Papers that I feel in regard to his untimely death in the prime of life. It was my privilege a little over ten THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command years ago to propose him as Member of the of H.E. The Governor, laid on the table the Legislative Council in the place of the late Mr. following papers, which had been published in Hewett, and I then expressed the prediction that the Government Gazette since the last meeting he would be found to be a worthy successor to of the Council:― Mr. Hewett in this Council and also in public Regulation made under section 6 of the Dogs work for the good of this Colony.
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